RECONSTRUCTION(1863-77)

major groups involved

• antebellum Southern planter aristocracy

• Southern yeoman farmers and Unionists

  • *Andrew Johnson(1808-75)

• *Radical Republicans

  • Thaddeus Stevens

• Northern Democrats and moderate Republicans

  • Samuel Jones Tilden

• ex-slaves and free African-Americans

Course of Reconstruction, 1865-1869

• presidential Reconstruction(April-December 1865)

• congressional Reconstruction(December 1865-1869)

  • Reconstruction Acts

  • congressional efforts to assist African-Americans

    • *"Forty Acres and a Mule" proposal

    • *Freedmen's Bureau

    • Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution

    • Civil Rights Act(1866)

  • impeachment of Johnson

Reconstruction at the state level

• participants

  • Southern Democrats

  • *Ku Klux Klan

  • *"carpetbaggers"

  • "scalawags"

• *"Redemption"

Conclusion of Reconstruction

• *Compromise of 1877